Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Here, I chat with Ryan Murray, a current PhD student at North Eastern University who has been using an innovative form of gene editing, called base editing, to engineer T-cells to target cancer cells. His editing approach involves making the T-cells allogeneic, more effective and stealthier!

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Ryan's preprint - biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.03.551705v1.full

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TIMESTAMPS:
Intro - 00:00
Engineering CAR T cells - 01:00
Next steps - 28:00

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